Bill Text: NY S04082 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4082 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Expands eligibility of privately owned forest land for a partial real property tax exemption; reduces the amount of acreage needed to qualify from 50 to 25 acres.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04082 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04082-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4082
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 27, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the real property tax law, in relation to eligibility of
          privately owned forest land for a real property tax exemption
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 480-a of the real
     2  property  tax  law,  as  amended  by chapter 428 of the laws of 1987, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (e) "Eligible tract" shall mean a tract of privately owned forest land
     5  of at least [fifty]  twenty-five  contiguous  acres,  exclusive  of  any
     6  portion  thereof  not devoted to the production of forest crops, timber,
     7  pulp, biomass, low-grade wood products, wildlife, fruits  or  mushrooms.
     8  Lands  divided  by  federal,  state,  county or town roads, easements or
     9  rights-of-way, or energy transmission corridors  or  similar  facilities
    10  will  be  considered  contiguous  for  purposes  of this section, unless
    11  vehicular access for forest management purposes is precluded. Lands from
    12  which a merchantable forest crop has been cut or  removed  within  three
    13  years  prior  to  the  time  of application for certification under this
    14  section will be ineligible unless such cutting  or  removal  was  accom-
    15  plished under a forest management [program] plan designed to provide for
    16  the continuing production of merchantable forest crops.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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